Art Dudley Listening

"Hail, mortal!"
—Michelle Pfeiffer as Titania, reacting to Kevin Kline as Bottom, when he succeeds in operating a phonograph

"It's a series of tubes."—Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK), explaining how the Internet works

"The public will put up with anything except boredom."—Giuseppe Verdi

In his June, 2006 "Listening&quot">http://www.stereophile.com/artdudleylistening/606listening">Listening; column, Art Dudley discussed the original Quad ESL loudspeaker, and started to describe the task of refurbishing a 47-year-old pair of them; this month, Art fries a pair of transformers and nearly ruins his new wall oven—but finishes the job nevertheless. Please remember that sharp tools, solder flux fumes, and the high voltages typically present inside an electrostatic loudspeaker can sicken or kill you if you don't proceed with caution, and neither Stereophile nor its parent company, Primedia, can be responsible for the suffering or loss that may befall readers who follow Art's advice. Thank you.

"A few of us felt that we were the proverbial voices in the wilderness for a long time." So writes Gary Jacobson, whose Quad">http://www.quadesl.org">Quad ESL website, is my favorite of the many good ones out there.

Not only is it possible for a thinking person to now and then drastically change his point of view, if for no other reason than the sake of change—if one wishes to prevent self-seriousness and various other forms of mental decay, it's probably an outright must. So it was that I recently began to wonder if everything I know about record players might be wrong.

One should be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.—F. Scott Fitzgerald